Avison Young Digs Deep for Atira Women's Resource Society
Avison Young’s Vancouver team spent the company’s Global Day of Giving Oct. 15 lending a hand at the Atira Women's Resource Society's Imouto Housing for Young Women SRA, a low-barrier supportive housing project in the Downtown Eastside. Here’s a shot of the group, which spent the day repainting, landscaping and constructing a patio deck and gazebo to accommodate a new barbecue. The crew also prepared care packages for each of the residents.
Employees in Avison Young’s 71 offices in Canada, the US and Europe (2,000 total) participated in volunteer projects in their respective cities on the second annual Global Day of Giving. The objective, Canadian ops COO Mark Fieder notes, is to contribute resources to improve the communities where the firm does business. “No matter where you go in the world there is a charitable organization that needs support so that it can better the lives of others.”
